Capital Stock of Fixed Assets

Department/Agency

Central Statistics Office (CSO)

Key information

Net and gross capital stock classified by type of industry and asset at current and constant market prices; consumption of fixed capital classified by type of industry at current and constant market prices. Average service lives for assets with comparable data for other OECD countries.

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Source

Estimates of the stock of assets are obtained by a modelling exercise, referred to as the Perpetual Inventory Method (PIM).

Scope

The stock of all produced fixed assets as defined in the European System of Accounts (ESA95). Produced fixed assets are assets which result from human effort. They exclude natural assets such as land, mineral deposits etc. They also exclude legal constructs such as patents, leases etc.